Yep, it looks a lot more like a Taycan to me. I believe they even said that was the car they were aiming for during their launch, so they weren’t shy about where they got their “inspiration”.

If the frame didn't get deformed, why would it be difficult to fit the panels?

It doesn’t have to be a sculpture of a magnifying lens, the same thing can happen with highly reflective windows on a building with a concave shape (up thread, plenty of people posted examples). Such a building would concentrate sunlight into one small area, which can cause parts to get hot enough to melt, something…

Many who work at charities aren’t volunteers either, they are paid. For example, Red Cross has roughly 35,000 employees. Having volunteers and employees are separate from whether a business is a charity.

I just don’t think it’s as easy as you put it. I’m in SF where I frequently see self driving cars and whenever two or more of them are together, they easily confuse each other (you would think they have a way of communicating with each other wirelessly to plan everything, but apparently not).

Tesla have only been able to make a successful charging network because the Tesla owners subsidized with via the vehicle sales. It’s much harder for third party networks to replicate this, closest thing was subscriptions, but now that Tesla is opening up their supercharger network, who wants to send money on a…

The article mentions nothing about the amount of profit the California franchises make (as a percentage or otherwise). So the article doesn’t address the point at all.

The world and market has changed considerably since they last announced the concept, so there would never have been a way they can keep the old price. All the other EV pickups have also raised their price considerably. It’s still a challenge to even release a vehicle like this so close in design to the concept, plus…

Huh? You are talking about something else entirely. We aren’t talking about the concept to vehicle timeline (which by the way their expected production date was late by 2 years, not half a decade; and regardless it’s pretty wild they were even able to get the Cybertruck into production with minimal changes, according…

My point is that everyone is now planning things in a way that things will go on time only if everything goes perfectly. Gone are the days where they build parts years in advance and have a considerable stock pile built up first before they start assembling the vehicle. The battery production lines are coming up…

Actually this is not longer true.

Actually if you have been following 4680 production this was totally expected. They were first using it for Model Y and were struggling to bring up the production numbers and discontinued it for that model back in September. That indicates they weren’t able to get enough production capacity.

Nope, it’s nowhere near as simple as you think it is. Look at the station layout. You have multiple cars coming in to a stop and for efficiency, it is designed so cars can pass each other. It’s not like a train station where the train cars come in as a line. Also unlike a warehouse, the passengers are not inanimate…

Well, the Loop is working to the capacity it was designed for (it handled peak CES demand with ease), and was built for much less cost and time than an equivalent light rail would have cost. I think Las Vegas is pretty happy with it, so much so they are agreeing to plans to expand it further. People instead just brush…

I think handling the stations and loading/unloading passengers remain an issue even if they make the tunnel part automated. Autopilot is an L2 system anyways that requires a driver in the driver’s seat, so that doesn’t change much, especially for such a short trip.

Tesla has no desire to dabble in L3, just like the L4 companies didn’t. They are instead working on door to door L2 (L2 that works in the city also), which would lay the basis for eventual L4.

They can hit much higher speeds if they wanted to. From a quick search here is one hitting 116 mph. But given the short distances of the initial stations and more than enough capacity, there really isn’t a need to go that fast for these first stations in everyday use (most equivalent light rail subways peak at around…

The Loop in Las Vegas has nothing to with Hyperloop, even though journalists like to use the two terms interchangeably. Hyperloop is low pressure tunnel using maglev trains that is intended to allow traveling very long distances at speeds up to 700mph.

The one I linked is the most comprehensive and has primary sources you can verify yourself (it’s easy to look at the NHTSA complaints listed and see the cars are taken from auction sites and not actually written by owners, Keef didn’t do a particularly good job with his fake reports).

The Model S suspension problem story has been pushed by a person named Keef, who gathered pictures of cars from auction websites that have been in crashes and falsely reported them to the NHTSA as failed suspensions. He filed hundreds of false reports and NHTSA did an investigation and didn’t find fault in the…